Marine Biology News
May 7, 2025
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May 7, 2025 — Parasites are crucial indicators of ecosystem health, and their absence can signal trouble. Once pristine, Florida's Indian River Lagoon (IRL) now faces pollution and algal blooms that have damaged essential habitats like seagrass beds. New research ...
May 7, 2025 — Newly discovered species of extinct fish shows striking similarities to unrelated modern-day predators, suggesting certain traits have emerged multiple times and remained consistent over hundreds of millions of ...
May 2, 2025 — The disappearance of sea ice in polar regions due to global warming not only increases the amount of light entering the ocean, but also changes its color. These changes have far-reaching consequences for photosynthetic organisms such as ice algae ...
May 5, 2025 — Some reef fish have the unexpected ability to move their jaws from side to side, biologists have discovered. This ability -- which is rare among vertebrate animals -- allows these fish to feed ...
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May 5, 2025 — Some red algae exhibit structural color that gives their growth tips a blue hue and the rest of their bodies including their fruiting structures a white hue. Moreover, since the color-producing ...
May 5, 2025 — Could the artificial introduction of oxygen revitalise dying coastal waters? While oxygenation approaches have already been proven successful in lakes, their potential side effects must be carefully ...
May 5, 2025 — Endemic to China's Yangtze River, the Yangtze finless porpoise is known for its intelligence and charismatic appearance; it looks like it has a ...
Apr. 28, 2025 — New research has revealed that expected, extreme changes in India's summer monsoon could drastically hamper the Bay of Bengal's ability to support a ...
Apr. 28, 2025 — Many of the fish we eat play a key role in maintaining the seabed -- and therefore our climate, new research ...
May 2, 2025 — The highest trophic niches in Mesozoic oceans were filled by diverse marine reptiles, including ichthyosaurians, plesiosaurians, and thalattosuchians, dominating food webs during the Jurassic and ...
May 1, 2025 — Scientists inserted DNA-encoding methylmercury detoxification enzymes into the genome of an abundant human gut bacterium. The engineered bacterium detoxified methylmercury in the gut of mice and ...
Deciphering the Migratory Behavior and Connectivity of Mediterranean and Atlantic Cory's Shearwaters
Apr. 30, 2025 — A good wildlife management plan must include information on their migratory processes if the conservation of a species, particularly an endangered ...
Apr. 30, 2025 — The well-known salmon life cycle has long been described as going only one way at a time. Juvenile salmon hatch and swim down rivers to the ocean, ...
May 1, 2025 — Animal research on biomusicality, which looks at whether different species are capable of behaving in ways that show they recognize aspects of music, ...
Earlier Headlines
Apr. 30, 2025 — In 2013, a sea star wasting syndrome decimated populations of Pisaster along the west coast of North America and along the Monterey Peninsula in California, where this study was conducted. The orange ...
Apr. 25, 2025 — A new study has found worrying signs that climate change may be undermining the capacity of Arctic fjords to serve as effective carbon sinks. The findings suggest that the capacity of polar oceans to ...
Apr. 25, 2025 — Strong methods do exist for measuring animal movement in the context of energy expenditure, but these are limited by the physical size of the equipment used. Now, in a paper published in the Journal ...
Apr. 23, 2025 — Researchers discovered tiny features on sculpins' fins which may enable them to cling firmly in harsh underwater ...
Apr. 23, 2025 — A new study has revealed that an incentive program increased live releases of endangered species caught as bycatch. However, unexpectedly, the overall positive impact was reduced by some vessels ...
Apr. 23, 2025 — Florida's Lake Okeechobee is essential for water management but faces harmful algal blooms, which thrive in warm, nutrient-rich waters. Daily vertical migration enables them to survive in turbid ...
Apr. 22, 2025 — At the heart of the Amazon researchers are investigating a mysterious parasite which is devastating fish farms around the ...
Apr. 21, 2025 — What roils beneath the Earth's surface may feel a world away, but the activity can help forge land masses that dictate ocean circulation, climate patterns, and even animal activity and ...
Apr. 17, 2025 — Lake ecosystems can receive high inputs of terrestrial organic matter (t-OM) that microbes make available to higher trophic level consumers. A research group examined terrestrial reliance of 19 ...
Apr. 16, 2025 — In the global carbon cycle microorganisms have evolved a variety of methods for fixing carbon. Researchers have investigated the methods that are utilized at extremely hot, acidic and sulfur-rich ...
Apr. 16, 2025 — An international team of scientists and crew on board Schmidt Ocean Institute's research vessel Falkor (too) was the first to film the colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni) in its natural ...
Studying How Seals Adapt to Extreme Environments Could Lead to Benefits in Human Reproductive Health
Apr. 15, 2025 — Wild animals that have acquired adaptions to maximize their reproductive output in some of the world's most extreme conditions may provide answers to some of the most pressing problems in the ...
Apr. 14, 2025 — New DNA probes allow for efficient surveying of the hidden lives of squids and octopuses in the deep sea. This development provides an effective tool for marine ecological research and conservation ...
Apr. 10, 2025 — Study reveals commonly detected environmental levels of clobazam -- a medication often prescribed for sleep disorders -- increased the river-to-sea migration success of juvenile salmon in the wild. ...
Apr. 10, 2025 — Transplanting seagrass meadows? Yes, it's possible -- and it works! The proof is in Monaco, with the successful transplantation of 384 m of Posidonia oceanica. Posidonia oceanica is an essential ...
Apr. 9, 2025 — New research revealed the remarkable chemical diversity of substances exuded by coral reefs and demonstrated that thousands of different chemicals derived from tropical corals and seaweeds are ...
Apr. 9, 2025 — In 1962, when environmentalist and author Rachel Carson penned 'Silent Spring,' alerting the world to the dangers of the pesticide DDT, it was the reproductive threat to birds -- the bald ...
Apr. 9, 2025 — Milky seas are a rare bioluminescent phenomenon where vast areas of the ocean glow at night, sometimes for months. This glow, likely caused by Vibrio harveyi bacteria, has been reported by sailors ...
Apr. 8, 2025 — About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the planet, wiping out all non-avian dinosaurs and about 70% of all marine species. But the crater it left behind in the Gulf of Mexico was a ...
Apr. 8, 2025 — As coral bleaching and deaths become more widespread globally, experts show that over a third of restoration projects fail and might never be scalable enough to have positive effects on reef ...
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
Friday, April 25, 2025
- 'Cryosphere Meltdown' Will Impact Arctic Marine Carbon Cycles and Ecosystems, New Study Warns
- Animal Energy Usage Made Visible Through Video
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
- New and Surprising Traction Trait in Sculpin Fish
- Paying Fishers to Release Endangered Catches Can Aid Conservation, but Only If Done Right
- Toxic Blooms in Motion: Researchers Map Algae Patterns in Lake Okeechobee, Florida
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
Monday, April 21, 2025
Thursday, April 17, 2025
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
- Microorganisms Employ a Secret Weapon During Metabolism
- First Confirmed Footage of a Colossal Squid -- And It's a Baby!
Tuesday, April 15, 2025
- Studying How Seals Adapt to Extreme Environments Could Lead to Benefits in Human Reproductive Health
Monday, April 14, 2025
Thursday, April 10, 2025
- Drug Pollution Alters Salmon Migration
- Transplanting Posidonia Oceanica: Conservation of Seagrass Meadows
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
- Coral Reefs Exude Myriad Chemicals, Fueling Dynamic Microbial Recycling of Nutrients
- Mapping Mercury Contamination in Penguins of the Southern Ocean
- With New Database Researchers May Be Able to Predict Rare Milky Seas Bioluminescent, Glowing Event
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
- Life Recovered Rapidly at Site of Dino-Killing Asteroid: A Hydrothermal System May Have Helped
- Restoration Programs Won’t Save Coral Reefs
- Flex Appeal: 'Trade-Off' Between Armor and Efficiency in Sea Turtle Shells
- Dinosaurs' Apparent Decline Prior to Asteroid May Be Due to Poor Fossil Record
Monday, April 7, 2025
- Saturn's Moon Titan Could Harbor Life, but Only a Tiny Amount, Study Finds
- One-Third of Australia's Coastal Terrestrial Aquaculture at Risk from Sea Level Rise by 2100
Friday, April 4, 2025
Thursday, April 3, 2025
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
- Coral Diseases and Water Quality Play a Key Role for Coral Restoration and Survival Efforts
- New Study Shines a Light on the Mechanics of Bioluminescence in the Rare Fish Vinciguerria Mabahiss
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
- Ocean Eddies -- The Food Trucks of the Sea
- Artisanal Fishers Are Almost as Accurate as Satellites in Producing Environmental Data
- Ecosystem Disrupted Following the Disappearance of Great White Sharks
Monday, March 24, 2025
- Biologists Discover Ancient Neurohormone That Controls Appetite
- Introduced Pacific Oysters Provide Biodiversity Benefits in Port River
Friday, March 21, 2025
Thursday, March 20, 2025
- Aotearoa Once Home to Elephant Seals
- Study Identifies Viruses in Red Tide Blooms for the First Time
- Restored Stream Supports New Wild Salmon Run
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
- Marine Animals Help Solve Ocean Issues
- Sulfur Bacteria Team Up to Break Down Substances in the Seabed
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
- Red Coral Colonies Survive a Decade After Being Transplanted in the Medes Islands
- Coastal Guardians Pioneer a New Way to Protect the Florida Keys' Shorelines
Monday, March 17, 2025
Thursday, March 13, 2025
- Brown Trout Proven to Successfully Navigate Beaver Dams
- 'Surprising' Cause of Sargassum Blooms in Caribbean
Wednesday, March 12, 2025
- Signs of Alien Life May Be Hiding in These Gases
- Gene Related to Human Kidney Disease Linked to Touch in Sea Anemones
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
- Study Explores Effects of Climatic Changes on Christmas Island's Iconic Red Crabs
- 'Fishial' Recognition: Neural Network Identifies Coral Reef Sounds
Monday, March 10, 2025
Sunday, March 9, 2025
Friday, March 7, 2025
Thursday, March 6, 2025
- Study Warns of Deadly Future Marine Heat Waves in East Coast Estuaries
- Adaptability of Some Coral Reef Fish to Rising Temperatures
Tuesday, March 4, 2025
- Amphibians Bounce-Back from Earth's Greatest Mass Extinction
- Giant Clone of Seaweed in the Baltic Sea
Monday, March 3, 2025
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
- Shark Activity in South African Reef Revealed by Citizen Scientist Scuba Divers
- Eavesdropping on Whale Songs Sparks New Discoveries in Whale Ecology
- Feeding Anemone: Symbiote Fish Actively Feed Hosts in Wild
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
- Humans Inherited Their Flexible Joints from the Earliest Jawed Fish
- Some Animals Cooperate With Members of Other Species
- Siamese Fighting Fish Need More Space in Pet Shops, Study Shows
Monday, February 24, 2025
- Heat-Stressed Reefs May Benefit from Coral-Dwelling Crabs
- How Young Salmon Navigate a Gauntlet of Danger En Route to the Sea
- Research Provides New Detail on the Impact of Volcanic Activity on Early Marine Life
Friday, February 21, 2025
- Underwater Mics and Machine Learning Aid Right Whale Conservation
- Successes of Virginia's Oyster Restoration Efforts
- The Rising Tide of Sand Mining: A Growing Threat to Marine Life
Thursday, February 20, 2025
- Scientists Call for Efforts to Protect Habitats of Critically Endangered Shark Species
- Turtles Change Nesting Patterns in Response to Climate Change
- 10 New Sponge Species Near Hawaii
Wednesday, February 19, 2025
- Nitrogen Fixation on Marine Particles Is Important in the Global Ocean
- We Can Farm More Seafood While Minimizing Its Impact on Biodiversity
- Urban Environments Promote Adaptation to Multiple Stressors
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
Friday, February 14, 2025
- Marine Mystery Solved: How Anemonefish Avoid Stings from Their Sea Anemone Hosts
- Under-Sea Mountains Are Key 'hubs' For Sharks
Thursday, February 13, 2025
- New England's Salt Marshes Store 10 Million Cars' Worth of Carbon -- And Add Another 15,000-Worth Every Year
- Foraging Seals Enable Scientists to Measure Fish Abundance Across the Vast Pacific Ocean
Wednesday, February 12, 2025
- Can Artificial Intelligence Save the Great Barrier Reef?
- Economically, Culturally Important Marine Species Vulnerable to Changing Climate
Tuesday, February 11, 2025
- International Shark Attack File Report: Unprovoked Shark Bites Plummeted in 2024
- Scientists Harness AI to Help Protect Whales, Advancing Ocean Conservation and Planning
- Study Takes a 'bite' Out of Shark Depredation Using Citizen Science
Monday, February 10, 2025
- California's Marine Protected Areas Boost Fish Populations Across the State
- Scientists Identify Heat-Resistant Kelp Strain
- Follow the Fish's Gaze
Friday, February 7, 2025
- Soft Tissue from a 183 Million-Year-Old Jurassic Plesiosaur Analyzed
- Tracking Algae Species Interactions to Help Predict Harmful Algae Blooms
Thursday, February 6, 2025
- Some Species of Baleen Whales Avoid Attracting Killer Whales by Singing Too Low to Be Heard
- New Technology Lights Way for Accelerating Coral Reef Restoration
- Multinational Research Project Shows How Life on Earth Can Be Measured from Space
- 'Marine Prosperity Areas' Represent a New Hope in Conservation
- Whale Poop Contains Iron That May Have Helped Fertilize Past Oceans
Wednesday, February 5, 2025
Tuesday, February 4, 2025
Monday, February 3, 2025
- Octopuses Have Some of the Oldest Known Sex Chromosomes
- Revealing Underwater Secrets With New Technique